Health & Safety

Understanding the NSF/ANSI 53 Water Filtration Performance Standard

Throughout the United States, multiple reports about elevated lead levels found in drinking water in homes, schools, and businesses have emerged. Consumers can protect...

Infection Control & Backflow Quiz

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...

Backflow and Infection Control Quiz

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...

Backflow Prevention and Thermal Mixing Valves

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...

Quiz: Medical Gas and Infection Control

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...

Hospital Backflow Prevention

Today’s complex potable water “production” and distribution systems continue to make significant contributions in helping to sustain the utility and comfort of...

Raising Awareness About Water Safety During Construction

Healthcare facilities with concerns about immuno-compromised patients have been early adopters of water safety standards to maintain a healthy built environment. With the Centers...

Proposition 65

Many consumers nationwide can recite from memory the common warning phrase, “This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer...

Water Heaters Used for Temperature Control

A key, long-standing assumption is being upset in the codes: these water heaters can control final POU water temperature.

Backflow Prevention and Infection Control

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...